A Mental Health Break
The #1 Mental Health Podcast: You are not alone. This show is here to help you on your journey through inspirational and authentic testimonials. This is the Top Weekly Mental Health Show and the Official Podcast for Mental Health Advocates. We normalize the conversation together.
This Top 10% Podcast provides a platform where people offer advice and share their vulnerable moments, life experiences, and stories. The Advocates and Professionals who have joined the show each week since January 2020 are committed to letting you know that YOU ARE NOT ALONE.
After Host Vincent A. Lanci survived a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), he began to share his story and utilize his knowledge and experience to help others.
There are many areas that are discussed each week. These topics include trauma recovery, confidence improvement, coping, mindfulness techniques, emotional intelligence, anxiety, depression, self harm, suicide, family challenges, feeling like no one understands you, social media addiction, life after divorce, mental health in the workplace, grieving, grief, and so many more.
The show also has conversations on mental disorders, Anxiety disorders, Bipolar disorder, Major depressive disorder, Eating disorder, Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Borderline personality disorder, Social anxiety disorder, Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Attention deficit disorder (ADD), Panic disorder, Generalized anxiety disorder, Seasonal affective disorder, suicidal ideations, Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), phobia, Schizophrenia, and countless more.
Do you want to learn from people who have been in your shoes? Each guest is open to sharing an honest testimonial combined with tools they have learned along the way.
A Mental Health Break
Switching Worlds After Struggling to Understand
After spending her first 5 years in Japanese Buddhist family, Dr. Rita Brock entered the US military world with her stepfather. After struggling to understand a world that was different from her Japanese Buddhist upbringing, she made many changes in life. Tune-in to find out.
She will discuss these areas and so much more:
-Starting over
-How to deal with shock
-How to deal with hatred
-Why having someone to count on is important
-What is spiritual health?
-Why resonating with others help things make sense
-Overcoming moral challenges
-Some baseball banter, too!
In addition to discussing what overwhelmed Americans can do to manage moral distress, including children as they being school again, Rita is also working on a national project to help first responders suffering from moral injury distress and moral distress get the help they need. She developed a program called ReST 4 First Responders which recently launched.
Meet Rita Nakashima Brock, Rel. M., M.A., Ph.D.: Senior Vice President and Director of the Shay Moral Injury Center at Volunteers of America. She leads the organization’s efforts to deepen understanding about moral injury in the many populations who experience it. The center builds on Volunteers of America’s work, spanning more than a century, of helping veterans and others who live with this emotional trauma.
She is a leading national expert on moral injury in combat veterans and has offered trainings for VA mental health providers, for professional chaplains, and for veterans and their families.
In her first master’s degree, Dr. Brock studied youth development, psychology of religion, and pastoral counseling and was employed as a youth minister.
As we have someone on the show familiar with youth development, this week’s spotlight story at the halfway point will an article titled, Adolescent mental health, from the World Health Organization. Follow along here.
Welcome to Episode #156 of A Mental Health Break - the podcast that normalizes the conversation around mental health. You are not alone. Check out all episodes weekly interviews since January 2020.
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